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ACCUSED MURDERER TELLS
OF "RED" MAX GANG
GANG SECRETS
ENGLISH TAXI FLEET FOR CANTON GIRLS IN NET
REMARKABLE DEVELOP.
MENTS ARE EXPECTED TO FOLLOW A STATE- MENT MADE BY ROGER VERNON, THE FRENCH EX- CONVICT NOW AWAITING TRIAL IN PARIS ON A CHARGE OF MURDERING "RED" MAX KASSEL, WHOSE SHOT-RIDDLED BODY WAS FOUND BY THE ROADSIDE AT SOUTH MIMMS, HERTS, SOME WEEKS AGO.
The statement, it is understood, has been forwarded to Scotland Yard and is likely to lead to the immediate breaking up of a notorious gang of white slave traffickers of which "Red" Max is openly stated to have been
the head.
"Red" Max, known to many of his associates a "Tsar of the Under- world," was shot in a flat in Soho,. and his body was Inter dumped by the roadside.
MYSTERY WOMAN
The adjourned inquest on him was opened at Haifold recently, when a mystery woman, who, it is claimed, was actually in the Soho flat when "Red" Max was shot, gave evidence. Apart altogether from this, how- over, the statement made by Roger! Vernon is said to contain amazing revelations concerning the activities of the sinister "Red" Max.
Vernon made his statement to the) examining magistrate in Paris, be- | fore whom he was summoned at his own written request.
Botto
He has declared that for three
Picture shows part of a fleet of twenty taxis ordered by the Canton Taxicab Company from Far East Motors, Hongkong. Delivery has al- ready been made.
BABY BORN TO
HYPNOTISED
MOTHER
Felt No Pain, Says Doctor
New York, Aug. 20.
AMERICAN doctors are not impressed by the claim of
Autumn
Fashion Signal Is GREEN
COLOUR Kings of Fashion in
London have proclaimed green as our autumn colour. Chou, a dark rich green, was easily favourite choice of the men who met in Sackville Street, W., as the British Colour Council, for a premiere of autumn fashion colour schemes.
With your greeri sult in the coun- try you will wear a daring hunting gold for contrast.
The more subdued,
more subtlo temple gold for London accessories,
There is lovely thriller red, close relative of tomato.
Jungla and English green are both the blackish variety for shoes, handbags.
at
Canton,
few shades below
emerald, completes the Chinese in- fluence on greens.
Wistaria, Wild Iris, and prune are suggested contrasts to set off Chinese amethyst.
Limoges blue and Chinese lacquer is another attractiva combination for sports suits.
For
reds the colour artists have found inspiration in the wine list.
Bacchus. Beaune, Chlantt are
+
background for phlox, phantom blue,. clarct, and ruby,
Bengal Colossus Seen Again
Dr. A. H. Kanter, of Columbus, Ohio, that a 101⁄2lb, baby girl was born painlessly to Mrs. Leonard Loomis, "DRESSED AS HERMIT" agd twenty-one, during deep sleep induced by hypnotism.
years he was employed by "Red" Max as "courier and his special
Calcutta, August 24. task was to convoy British,
Dr. J. H. Uphum, president-elect of the American Medical As- French and German girl victima
Bengal's mysterious Colossus has of the gang across the Channel, sociation, described the hypnosis experiment as "one of those rare appeared again. A Bengall woman Ho had also, he said, to supervise cases.' "It has no bearing," he said, "on the future of maternity."relates that while nursing a sick all the formalities connected with the
|mother-in-law, she opened the door. Arrangement of "accommodation" Dr. Andrews Rogers, of serious consideration."
about mid-night and saw in front of Dr. "I
Kanter states that husbands for these girls to over- Ohio State Hospital, said:
Mrs. the door an abnormally tall human Loomis awoke refreshed from her
come dificulties regarding their atoy don't believe many women would hypnotic sleep and said she had felt/igure carrying a rod and dressed as
in the countries into which they were imported.
depend on it; but you'll have to Vernon reveala that Max had find that out from women.
agents in practically every important British town, and that these agenta AWOKE REFRESHED were continually recruiting women and girls to fill vacancies in the
"Five hundred to a thousand con- houses and flats run by Max in Lon-secutive successful results would be don and on the Continent.
In the same way, agents operating required before hypnosis can expect on the Continent procured "foreign women who were "ferried" across by Vernon after husbands had been Iound for them and then placed not only in London but in Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Nottingham,
THE ACCESSION DECLARATION
“LAMA FAITHFUL.
PROTESTANT”
NOV. 3 CEREMONY
The declaration of Protestant the Faith which the law requires Sovereign to make on his accession will be made by the King in the House of Lords on Tuesday, Novem- ber 3, at the State opening of a new scasion of Parliament.
The Sovereign makes the Accession Declaration either at the Coronation ceremony, or at his first meeting with Parliament, whichever event. should come first. The declaration will therefore be made on November 3 next. It is as follows:
I do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testifs, and declare that I am a faithful Protestant, and that I will according to the true intent of the enactments which secured tho Protestant Succession to the Throne of any Realm uphold and maintain the said enactments to the best of my powers according to law.
The declaration has to be, made, subscribed, and audibly repeated" by the Sovereign,
THREE MONTHS RÉCESS Parliament adjourned recently. The data of reassembly, Mr. Bald- win announced in the House of Com mons, will bo Thursday, October 20. On
the that day
Ression will be prorogued and on the follow- ing Tuesday, November 3, the King) will open the new session in State.
The postponement of the Proro- gation until after the recess," al- though the business of the session will have been completed before the adjournment, is due to the Govern- ment's desire to be able to put emer- gency measures before Parliament with the least possible delay should the need arise. If the Prorogation took place this week, it would be the necessary to spend a week on formality of opening a new scanion before other business could be taken.
"The Informer"
Makes £100.
For Author
Hollywood, Aug. 15. Many people Imagine that Liam O'Flaherty made a fortune out of film-of his book, "The Informer."
But O'Flaherty says that all he has made is about £100,
"All I should have had out of
. It has been swallowed up in law- sulis over, the film rights,” he said.
hermit.
no pain. Both she and her baby| are doing well.
The woman shricked, and fainted, While America is surprised and and did not recover consciousness sceptical of painters birth achieved for four hours. Next morning the by hypnosis, in Soviet Russia hun- villagers were panic-stricken when dreds of experiments have been they discovered near the houso hugo- made, and between 50 and 60 per footprints, 22 Inches long, 11 inches.
broad and nix inches deep, cent. successes reported.
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